[31.10.2002] -
UNESCO LAUNCHES NEW ARAL SEA BASIN INITIATIVE
- Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura will announce
tomorrow a new initiative to study the Aral Sea Basin under the
auspices of the World Water Assessment Programme, which brings
together 23 United Nations agencies through a secretariat hosted
by UNESCO.(...)Continue- Spanish

[28.10.2002] -
UNESCO LAUNCHES GLOBAL CHANGE MONITORING
PROGRAMME - Bishkek - UNESCO's unique network of Biosphere
Reserves is set to have a new role - monitoring global climate
change. Out of the 408 biosphere reserves in 94 countries, 138
are in mountain areas. And mountains are proving to be extremely
sensitive to global warming.(...)Continue- Spanish

[14.10.2002] -
THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF DRUG
TRAFFICKING - Paris - The Mexican drug cartels, as major
suppliers of the North American market, rake in annual profits
of between 10 and 30 billion dollars. When Mexico was deep in
financial crisis in 1995, the drug money laundered was equal to
what the country earned from its oil exports. These two estimates
illustrate the enormous industry that drug trafficking had become
during the 1980s and 1990s.(...)Continue- Spanish
- Arabe

[09.10.2002] -
INAUGURATION OF THE BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA:
FROM PAPYRUS TO DIGITALIZATION - Paris
- The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the largest library in the Middle
East and Africa, will be officially inaugurated next October 16,
marking the rebirth of the institution founded over 2,000 years
ago by Ptolemy I in northern Egypt. The ceremony, which was due
to take place on April 23 was delayed because of events in the
Middle East. It consecrates an exceptional architectural complex,
equipped with state-of-the-art information technologies.(...)
Continue- Spanish - Arabe

[08.10.2002] -
DIRECTOR-GENERAL EXPRESSES CONCERN AT MURDER
OF BRAZILIAN JOURNALIST - Paris - UNESCO Director-General
Koïchiro Matsuura today expressed grave concern about news
of the murder of yet another journalist, Domingos Savio Brandão
Lima Junior, owner, publisher and columnist of the daily Folha
do Estado, in Cuiaba, Brazil. He was shot near his newspapers's
new offices, currently under construction, on 30 September.(...)Continue- Spanish

[08.10.2002] -
NEW TECHNOLOGIES HELPING TO SAVE WORLD
HERITAGE - Paris
- As UNESCO prepares to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the
World Heritage Convention, adopted on November 16, 1972, preservationists
campaigning to save sites, landscapes and monuments of "exceptional
universal value" still face serious threats, even though
most of the 730 world heritage sites* are well managed.(...)Continue- Spanish
- Arabic

[02.10.2002] -NEW
TEXT BOOKS AND CURRICULUM FOR AFGHAN CHILDREN - Paris
- An agreement establishing a funds-in-trust to finance the upgrading
of textbooks and renewal of the education curriculum for some
three million school children in Afghanistan was signed today
by UNESCO and the Government of Germany.(...)Continue- Spanish